Outpost: Black Sun (2012)

Director:

Steve Barker

Writers:

Steve Barker
Rae Brunton

Release Date:

2012 (UK)

Genre:

Action | Horror

Plot:

The year is 1945, the closing stages of WW2, and a German scientist by the name of Klausener is working...

Plot Keywords:

Prequel | Color In Title | Violence | Sequel | Three Word Title

Cast

Richard Coyle	...	Wallace
Clive Russell	...	Marius
Michael Byrne	...	Neurath
Catherine Steadman	...	Lena
Julian Wadham	...	Francis Hunt
Nick Nevern	...	Carlisle
Daniel Caltagirone	...	Macavoy
Paul Birchard	...	Cains
David Gant	...	Klausener
Alice da Cunha	...	Nurse
Gary McDonald	...	Abbot
Philip Rosch	...	Harper
John Kazek	...	Muir
James McCreadie	...	Scared local
Vivien Taylor	...	Matron
Martin Bell	...	Neurath
Johnny Meres	...	Götz
Ali Craig	...	Hall
Jacques Kerr	...	Doctor
Carter Ferguson	...	Jem
John P. Arnold	...	Tech
Dominic Watters	...	The Subject / Nazi Zombie
Gareth Morrison	...	Nazi Zombie
Sam McMurtrie	...	Nazi Surgeon
Adam Harkin	...	Nazi surgeon
Domenic Pontone	...	Josef
Philip Barratt	...	Young Klausener
James G. O'Hara	...	Lead Militia
Leo Horsfield	...	Nazi Zombie (uncredited)

Directed by
Steve Barker

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Steve Barker
Rae Brunton

Produced by
Jamie Carmichael	....	executive producer
Angela Murray	....	line producer
Arabella Page Croft	....	producer
Kieran Parker	....	producer
Shail Shah	....	executive producer
Nigel Thomas	....	executive producer
Charlotte Walls	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Theo Green

Cinematography by
Darran Tiernan

Film Editing by
Bill Gill
Chris Gill

Casting by
Kate Plantin

Production Design by
James Lapsley

Art Direction by
Moley Campbell

Costume Design by
Alison Mitchell

Makeup Department
Doone Forsyth	....	trainee makeup artist
Niamh Morrison	....	makeup designer
Stephanie Lynne Smith	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Victoria Dabbs	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Harry Boyd	....	assistant director
Graham Drover	....	third assistant director
Mark Murdoch	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Philip Barratt	....	graphic artist
Ryan Clachrie	....	art department assistant
Matthew Clark	....	art department assistant
Gary Loughran	....	scenic artist
David Macleod	....	stand-by props
Gordon Rogers	....	construction manager
Tony Sheridan	....	props master
Lynsey Sinnamon	....	head scenic artist

Sound Department
Mark Benson	....	foley mixer
Rada Danilovic	....	sound effects editor
Matt Davies	....	sound mix technician
Romain Drouillon	....	french dubbing mixer
Ben Hooper	....	dialogue editor
Robert Karlsson	....	dolby sound consultant
Alastair Mason	....	production sound mixer
Kian McClure	....	boom operator
Markus Moll	....	sound re-recording mixer
Andy Stallabrass	....	adr mixer
Martin Wales	....	sound assistant

Special Effects by
Elle Baird	....	prosthetic makeup artist
Dave Evans	....	special effects technician
Chris Fitzgerald	....	special effects makeup
Mike Kelt	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by
Uday Bhaskar Bandaru	....	visual effects artist
Praveen Bareria	....	visual effects
Charlotte Collings	....	di producer
Vikas Gandhi	....	visual effects producer
Reuben Goodyear	....	di producer
Piers Hampton	....	executive visual effects supervisor
Tom Russell	....	senior colourist

Stunts
Carter Ferguson	....	fight arranger
Gary Robert	....	utility stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Anna Benbow	....	focus puller: a camera
Paul Benson	....	gaffer
Julie Bills	....	camera operator: a camera
Erin Currie	....	second assistant camera: dailies
Neil Davidson	....	still photographer
Dave Fowler	....	best boy
Claire Louise Fraser	....	camera trainee
Iain Harrison	....	rigger
Neil Hartop	....	additional photography
Damian Leitch	....	camera assistant: a camera
Jon McCormick	....	assistant rigger
Ryan McHenry	....	camera trainee
Grant McPhee	....	digital imaging technician
Mark Morley	....	key grip
Leo Robb	....	video assist
Chris Shaw	....	focus puller: b camera
Jonathan Wright	....	camera assistant: "b" camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Mairi Claire Bowser	....	costume trainee
Harriet Edmonds	....	key costumer
Elizabeth Healy	....	costume supervisor
John Laurie	....	costume assistant
April Nash	....	costume trainee
Orsolya Sallai	....	costume assistant

Editorial Department
Naysun Alae-Carew	....	additional editing
Naysun Alae-Carew	....	opening titles editor
David Garbutt	....	assistant editor
Steve Harrow	....	post production consultant
James Lapsley	....	opening title design

Music Department
Patrick Jonsson	....	music programmer

Other crew
Naysun Alae-Carew	....	assistant to the producers
Hazel Borthwick	....	production secretary
Marilyn Edmond	....	key floor runner
Julie Falconer	....	unit nurse
Glynn Henderson	....	safety consultant
Paul Hornsby	....	military consultant
Tom Jenkins	....	location manager
Katharine Kennedy	....	epk producer
Duncan Leishman	....	location assistant
Dolina Macfarlane	....	script supervisor
Ashley McFarlane	....	runner
Joanne McGuinness	....	runner
Alasdair Morrison	....	script editor
Pete Murphy	....	unit manager
Russell Webber	....	production associate: Matador Pictures

Thanks
Stephen Dryer	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Black Camel Pictures

Distributors

• Anderson Digital (2013) (USA) (video) (digital)
• ContentFilm International (2012) (worldwide) (all media)
• Eagle Entertainment (2012) (Australia) (DVD) (as "Outpost 2: Black Sun")
• Home Box Office (HBO) (2013) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
• Lionsgate Home Entertainment (2012) (UK) (DVD)
• Lionsgate Home Entertainment (2012) (UK) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Mongrel Media (2012) (Canada) (all media)
• Splendid Film (2012) (Germany) (DVD)
• Splendid Film (2012) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Splendid Film (2012) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• XLrator Media (2012) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Prime Focus  post-production facilities
• Cutting Edge Group  music services
• De Lane Lea  sound re-recording
• Panalux  lighting equipment by
• Sapex Scripts  post production script services

Also Known As:

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA15+ | UK:15 | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:15 | Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK

Company:

Black Camel Pictures

Movie Connections:

Followed by Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz (2013)

British SAS versus Nazis!

The lead actress, Julianne Steadman, was really annoying in this film. She does not have much in the way of charisma. Her acting consists of screaming, demanding, threatening, and pouting. She plays the role of a hunter of Nazi war criminals, but she never actually shoots a gun, or does anything that would remotely indicate that she has ever been outside of a shopping mall.

Her friend is also hunting Nazis, though it turns out that he is doing it for a different reason. He is bland and boring, and after about thirty minutes of watching these two interacting, I was going to turn it off.

That's when they stumbled onto the British soldiers. The soldiers were the best members of the cast, and they were easily the best actors in this movie. They actually stayed in character, and they did a good job of being soldiers.

The villains were grunting Nazi zombies. Not much else to say about them. They were invulnerable, due to a magnetic field which kept them alive. Of course, if they are being shot to bits by numerous soldiers with machine-guns, you would think maybe their arms and legs would get shot off? I recall in Rambo IV, Stallone did a great job of shooting off the arms and legs of the enemy soldiers at the end of the movie.

Then again, if these same soldiers had been zombies since World War II, what had they been doing all those years?

As a B movie about Nazi zombies, this is not bad. It could have been better, if the two characters of Steadman and Marius had been eliminated. They really had nothing going for them. The soldiers each had more personality, and a lot more charisma. The soldiers were what saved the movie for me.

Without giving away the ending, let's just say it was a cop-out, and anti-climactic. The Star Wars rip-off scenes at the end were ridiculous. It went from being an OK horror movie, to being merely mediocre.